Exactly. Because the Screen Saver is an application, and you're switching from it to the Finder... ;)Mac OS X manages memory AMAZINGLY well . . . The only thing it will affect is how quickly you can switch BETWEEN apps.My reason for complaining is that when I get home from work and push the mouse to get the screen going and the screensaver to disappear, it can take up to 15 seconds before I can do anything.
The reason is that I am running a moving desktop () running the screen saver with Ken Burns effect using a handful of photos and running 13 other apps for a number of days, well my uptime is 5 days, so it is probably close to that.Yes. I would imagine, with all THAT running, that switching between apps would take a month of Sundays.
Fortunately, I have to log in and out of this computer frequently, as my fiancee likes to use it and has her own account. ;)
This makes the SystemUIServer eat 1.7 GB of memory alone.
OK. I've never heard of that one to be honest...
Somehow I find it ghastly that 512 MB is simply not enough for ordinary stuff.Actually, the stuff you describe above may all be pretty simple, but it's a lot more relatively processor and RAM intensive applications than the average person uses at once. On log in for me, only three applications launch. Mail in the foreground, and MSN Messenger and iCal in the background. And, of course, the Finder. That's it.
Of course, my fiancee's login launches Mail in the foreground, then ICQ, IRC, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and iChat plus a reminder program (smaller and simpler than iCal) in the background (she LOVES her chat... ;))
True... but even film purists have to face the cold hard reality of not having enough cash to buy a decent TV... and I DO love the clarity of the flat panel display (I have a Combo Drive Flat Panel iMac, not the 17"), so this will have to do for now... a computer was a higher priority than a home theatre at this point... ;)Hey if you are such a purist, you would never want to watch them on a small screen like the iMac's anyway ;-)still, as a film purist, I think I'd rather have that big screen to capture the greater detail, especially on Superbit DVDs.
By the way, I must warn you about a thing that happened to me when I got my iMac 17". Every night when I came home from work for at least two weeks after I got it, I just sat down in front of the beauty and played with it, most nights realizing at 2 am that I forgot to eat dinner - again, but that I better get to bed.Forgot to eat dinner... good thing I didn't get one. I'm diabetic and can't go around skipping meals... ;)
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